> On Dec 17, 2015, at 2:57 PM, Rafkind, Jon via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org> > wrote: > > I use gdb on linux to debug the swift binary. I find that gdb takes about 20 > seconds just to read the symbols before I can even interact with gdb. I was > wondering if anyone knew of a way to decrease the symbol load time, either by > some gdb settings or by compiling swift/llvm/clang in such a way as to get a > usefully debuggable binary but without so many symbols. > > My swift binary is a massive 1.1gb. > > $ ls -lh swift > -rwxr-xr-x 1 jon jon 1.1G Dec 8 18:43 swift* > > I built all of llvm/clang/swift in Debug mode. > > (Tangentially related, but using gold instead of ld to link swift is about > 2-3x faster)
You might give lldb a shot, if you haven't already. It seems to cope better with large binaries, and expr evaluation is more stable IME. -Joe _______________________________________________ swift-dev mailing list swift-dev@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev
